Many a times, consulting and IT service providers engage with customers from the stage of order inquiry or a phase called discovery, followed by order handover and then execution (order to cash) to the closure of the project. An effective agile organization will have a Product Owner identified who will be assuming the role of a traditional PM and a ......

Greg Satell has written insightful articles and analysis and every time he posts a new one, I dig in. Here are a few from his recent posting -The Usefulness of Useless Things : http://www.digitaltonto.com... to Manage Innovation : http://www.digitaltonto.com... Marketing Has Changed… ......

Size and effort is all what matters eventually :-). Estimation of work is really a tricky job. Here are a few resources I think a good start point to gather estimation techniques: Books and papers o Brooks, F., The Mythical Man Month, Addison-Wesley o COCOMO II Model Definition Manual, University of Southern California, 1991 (for more information visit ......

Check out this Six Rules of Unit Testing by Charles : Write the test first Never write a test that succeeds the first time Start with the null case, or something that doesn't work Don't be afraid of doing something trivial to make the test work Loose coupling and testability go hand in hand Use mock objects http://radio.weblogs.com/01... ......

I have been quite off of the blog scene here for a while. The product I was working on has been released, a time for a breather now and so, starting on a lighter vein, here are some interesting trivia about names : -): ADOBE> This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. APPLE COMPUTERS> It was ......

Attended a seminar on "IBM Rational Testing Solution - The Next Generation" today where IBM has unveiled their new set of test tools on Eclipse and Hyades framework: Brief overview of the products they have showcased today: 1. IBM Rational Manual tester: IBM Rational Manual Tester is designed to support the diverse skill sets of the people often tasked ......

(Collected from Internet) Question: How many testers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: None. Testers just noticed that the room was dark. Testers don't fix the problems, they just find them. To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the good tester, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. ......

Steve Miller (President of Pragmatic Software) has defined Gold Plating the following way:Gold Plating - Similar to scope and feature creep, programmers can also incur risk by making the feature more robust than is necessary. For example, the specification for the Logon page contained a screen shot that showed very few graphics, it was just a simple ......

The product Version I have been working is nearing release and the work has been going at break neck speed, especially with bug fixing and its validation schedule taking a real upward curve. Getting builds thrice a week and for quite a few builds, we have primarily been doing fix validations. Already through 3 regression cycles (cycles are generally ......

Reverse Engineering:A method of recreating software system components for which the source code is missing, out of date, or is otherwise not in agreement with existing components. Disassemblers and decompilers are examples of Reverse Engineering Tools.www.users.qwest.net/~... The process of analyzing an existing system to identify ......

Vamseedhar has been doing a great job, first with http://www.exforsys.com/ and now, he has come up with http://www.itquestionbank.c... its a site with different ebooks, tutorials, articles, code samples, ceritifcation questions etc. Good job done. Check out this site ......

Here are a few links to tutorials, help, tips or notes available on different testing tools on the net: Mercury: 1. WinRunner User Guide: http://www.wilsonmar.com/do... 2. Abridged WinRunner User Guide is available at: http://www.qualtech-int.com... 3. A WinRunner Tutorial is available at: http://www.csee.usf.edu/~nj... ......

By Trina Mukherjee in \\.rediff.com Illustrations By Dominic Xavier http://specials.rediff.com/... Here are the mistakes one can make while deciding about a suitable career. 1. Going by scores This is the most common and biggest mistake one can make. "Many factors determine one's choice of career -- aptitude, personality, interests ......